Pain Arabic Poems

Ya Ramadan,  holiest of all months
With luxurious scent of the bitter almonds.
A month of forgiveness and piety,
I proclaim Allah as my God, and no...

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Not only a dusty attic, crammed with forgotten things,
But a bittersweet symphony, the heart in memory sings.

The air hangs heavy, thick with "what ifs" and...

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Broken by miseries of life
I became nib of pen
People call me "poet"

In puzzles of night
i spill my pain over the lonely pages

I find my sumptuous...

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if i am already in your sink
   Why won't you then,let me drink?
       My heart is rusted
...

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Alexandria, Egypt is well known for being the city where Cleopatra once ruled her people and both she and her famous lover, Mark Anthony met...

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Narrated Aisha:The Prophet in his ailment in which he died,used to say"O Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at...

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THERE IS NO TOMORROW

Would you do it the same way again - if you knew the ending back when
Was love worth the heartache and pain...

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hand on heart do you believe in the truth?
honesty, love and in God absolute?
do you speak for freedom and for fairness?
to respect a human and...

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I’ve taught you well my young elder. The chosen path of the light was handed to you in a gift of sight as I gave...

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Falluja

Who can forget this place?
When the American moved in, they shot 
anything that moved,
families at the dinner table and women
hanging up washing.
A badly wounded enemy,...

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English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me...

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Mirror
by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

My era's obscuring mirror
shattered
because it magnified the small
and made the great seem insignificant.
Dictators and monsters...

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once upon a human

two kids named
ahmad and stan

each in his world 
loved reading Peter Pan

didn't see it coming
their dreams broken
down by the khazarian plan

they fell...

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And Repeat
(Abuse)

Slowly you have begun a habit that needs stopped. 
It needs attention paid to it. Now!

Some days you are so very kind, some days...

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Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally...

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